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Post subject: Re: So what is REALLY wrong with you the ignorant ask?
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:47 am
Spoonie in Training
Joined: Mon May 15, 2006 2:00 am
Posts: 136
Location: St. Louis, MO
Okay... I've though about this a while and I need to chime in again.
One thing I decided early on in my disability was that, no matter what, it was not personal. Regardless what I did or didn't believe (because I wasn't sure if I believed in god at the time...), I decided to believe that there was no way that the Universe was out to get me. I'm not the only one who suffers. Innocents suffer every day, their only crime being born into the world. There's no ******** way possible any omniscient being is that mean.
It's luck.
Sometimes, all the holes in the swiss cheese line up. And, health-wise, they just happened to line up on us. Someone had to be that placeholder, statistically (I believe). But it's nothing personal. It's not punishment. If *anything*, (and I mean if you _have_ to believe in some sort of predetermination) we volunteered for the detail because we knew our souls were strong enough.
There's that question in The Actor's Studio, "when you get to the pearly gates, what would you like god to say to you?"
I fully believe for folks like us they don't say a thing. They give a standing ovation.
Hang in there. And thanks for inspiring this discussion.
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PamC
Dx: Panhypopituitary (secondary hypoadrenal, hypothyroid, secondary hypogonad), chronic recalcitrant migrains (semi-resolved with ONS device), Sjogren's Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, on SSDI
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheComicsCurmudgeon/~3/HOhBhaopNwk/ http://joshreads.com/?p=3477 
Family Circus, 7/5/09
Like all right-thinking Americans, I have often allowed myself to spend idle moments imagining the death of the Keane clan. However, I see now that most of the scenarios I’ve conjured up — terrorist attack, murder-suicide pact, what have you — have been sadly pedestrian. Never, for instance, have I visualized them being killed by giant mutant ants! If we use grinning, doomed Jeffy as a reference point, the monsters in the lowermost chambers have to be at least the size of a terrier. I’m sure all four of the children will make tasty treats for the Queen of this awful colony.
Judge Parker, 7/5/09
Dear creators of the syndicated comic strip Judge Parker:
If you were working on a sitcom, or other long-form narrative acted out by live performers, you might find yourself in a situation where you had written out storylines that your actors were physically unable to perform. For instance, you might have an episode in which your nerdy heroine wows her school with her heretofore unmentioned prowess at jumping, aerial spinning, and other talents necessary for successful cheerleading, only to discover that the young actress tasked with playing the role wasn’t up the challenges laid out in the script. In that case, it would be acceptable, though rather transparent, to have all the action take place off camera.
However, in the comic strip form, your characters have no such limitations, and thus your decision to not show us any of the triumphant cheerleading routine that this entire ludicrous storyline has been leading up to is deeply puzzling.
Sincerely,
The Comics Curmudgeon
P.S. On the other hand, it is enjoyable to interpret the dialogue in the first throwaway panel — “I didn’t know Sophie could do those things!” “Yeah … the cheerleader moms know they’re finished!” — as meaning that Sophie neutralized the cheerleader moms’ dozens of henchmen with her superhuman martial arts skills, and is now preparing to eliminate her chief adversaries once and for all.
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheComicsCurmudgeon/~3/ArRnwh6pckk/ http://joshreads.com/?p=3472 
Gil Thorp, 7/5/09
HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS GIL THORP HAS A TWITTER! GIL THORP. HAS A TWITTER. And before you say, “Oh, the character Gil Thorp has a Twitter within the context of the fictional Gil Thorp universe, how mundane,” let me just assure you that while Gil Thorp may be a narrative construct his Twitter feed is all too real. Just think of the tweeting slap-fights that will soon break out with Marty Moon!
I am a little concerned about Gil’s statement that he has “a whole beautiful summer to figure it out.” Summertime in Gil Thorp is supposed to be about total deranged lunacy like Gail Martin hiring Coach Kaz, P.I. and Marty Moon getting grifted by Ben Franklin and little girls beating the crap out of each other at gymnastics and Von the teenage DJ protecting his older lady friend from a stalker who can’t spell. Last year’s long, boring continuation of the tale of Elmer the Accidental Illegal Immigrant was a terrible disappointment in this regard, but it will seem like a crazed, non-stop roller-coaster ride on PCP by comparison if we spend the next two months watching nothing but Gil laboriously hunting-and-pecking his way through four or five Twitter updates a day.
Blondie, 7/4/09
Underlying the the absurd, low-stakes suburban antics of Dagwood and his friends has always been a sense of ennui, a feeling that there must be more to life to experience that carpools and borrowed tools. Thus, it’s not surprising that Dagwood and Herb have decided to form a two-man anarchist terror cell, determined to spread destruction for its own sake, offering to their neighbors the joy of being alive that only close encounters with death can provide. Today the bowling alley goes up in flames, tomorrow Dithers Enterprises LLC’s headquarters!
Rex Morgan, M.D., 7/4/09
Good lord, why would Peter ever even consider stepping out on his lovely wife? Estelle the Nutritionist may be fetching enough, but she’d probably look at that plate of lo mein and mutter under her breath about sodium and MSG; Becka, meanwhile, knows just how to drive a man wild, sucking a single long noodle slowly up from the plate while locking her unblinking, reptilian eyes on Pete. Undeniably HOTT, am I right people?
Spider-Man, 7/4/09
If panel three is any indication, the way that Peter Parker makes moments last forever is by crapping in his pants. That way, if someone asks him, “Peter, what would consider to be your greatest achievement as a professional photographer?” he can say “That’s easy! It was the day I got the Bugle to buy my pictures at twice their usual rates! Â I remember because that was also the day I pooped in my drawers.”
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http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2009/Senate/Maps/Jul04-s.html http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2009/Senate/Maps/Jul04-s.html
Palin Will Resign as Governor of Alaska this Month
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"We've seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that,"
said
John Weaver, a long-time Republican operative close to Sen. John McCain about Sarah Palin's surprise resignation yesterday.
Palin did not give any real explanation of why she is resigning as governor of Alaska other than that
she was not planning to run for reelection and did not want to be a lame duck.
She also said she polled her children, who didn't like her being attacked all the time.
She will be succeeded by Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (R-AK), who ran unsuccessfully for the
House of Representatives and lost the primary to incumbent Don Young.
Palin's move is certainly going to dominate the political world for many a news cycle.
Most politicians would give their eye teeth for even a small shot at their party's
nomination for the presidency. Palin was probably the favorite at this moment.
Whether she is crazy like a fox or just plain crazy will occupy much ink and many pixels for months to come.
At the very least, this step is seriously unorthodox and will freak out a lot of
people. Assuming she wants to be President, the safer approach would have been to remain silent about running for re-election,
just saying she had not made up her mind yet about her future.
The filing deadline for governor is close to a year from now.
As long as no one knew if she was running for governor again,
she would not have been a lame duck and the state legislature would have had to treat her with respect.
Saying she did not want to be a lame duck is disingenuous since she is the one causing the orthopedic problem in the duck
by making this announcement.
Of course, she may well still be thinking of running for President in 2012, but she
already had a reputation as a lightweight and this move doesn't give her additional
gravitas. Her not wanting to be governor in 2011 while starting
a presidential run makes perfect sense. Alaska is just too far from Iowa and New Hampshire
and if she spent too much time away from home, people would accuse her of neglecting her
gubernatorial duties. But if she is resigning for the purpose of gearing up for 2012
already, she will take a lot of heat for it, starting with questions like:
- If governing Alaska was too tough for you, how will you run the whole country?
- If you are elected President, how do we know you won't quit when you learn where the buck stops?
- Why do you think 2 1/2 years as governor of an empty state qualifies you to be President?
Certainly no one will be asking other Republican candidates anything like this.
Click here for full story
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holy crap. this is amazing. - - - - - Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror
Black America’s eulogies for the King of Pop also let us resurrect his best selfBy Greg Tate Tuesday, June 30th 2009 ...Whatever Michael's alienation and distance from the Black America he came from—from the streets, in particular—he remained a devoted student of popular Black music, dance, and street style, giving to and taking from it in unparalleled ways. He let neither ears nor eyes nor footwork stray too far out of touch from the action, sonically, sartorially, or choreographically. But whatever he appropriated also came back transmogrified into something even more inspiring and ennobled than before. Like the best artists everywhere, he begged, borrowed, and stole from (and/or collaborated with) anybody he thought would make his own expression more visceral, modern, and exciting, from Spielberg to Akon to, yes, OK, smartass, cosmetic surgeons. In any event, once he went solo, Michael was, above all else, committed to his genius being felt as powerfully as whatever else in mass culture he caught masses of people feeling at the time. I suppose there is some divine symmetry to be found in Michael checking out when Barack Obama, the new King of Pop, is just settling in: Just count me among those who feel that, in Michael Jackson terms, the young orator from Hawaii is only up to about the Destiny tour....
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Unavailable online except to subscribers, D.G. Myers of Texas A&M (that center of vital Jewish life) has published in Commentary Mag an attack on "The Judaism Rebooters," the creative alternative Jewish culture that has grown up, mostly among 20 and 30 something Jews, in the last decade or so. This movements, including minyans, music, and lots of culture, seems the most exciting development Jewishly of the new century. The attacks remind me of the attacks on the Havurah movement in the 60s and 70s. Even the New York Board of Rabbis invited several "leaders" of independent minyans to talk about the development last month. I've seen two responses worth reading, even if the original article is not. One is a compilation of responses by contributors to Jewschool, a collective blog by some members of this demographic. The second is by Daniel Sieradski, founding editor of Jewschool until he was hired away by the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic agency) as Director of Digital Media.
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